New Era

2025

In New Era, Sofiez paints images at the moment they become public memory. The works depict televised incidents, viral news, religious scenes, political gestures, celebrity appearances, and accidental spectacles — situations originally unrelated to art but transformed through mass attention. These are not simply memes, but events that acquire symbolic value through repetition, commentary, and collective observation.

The series focuses on how contemporary culture produces characters involuntarily: a protest, a restoration, a press encounter, a television broadcast, or a scandal becomes a shared visual reference. Detached from their original context, these images persist less for what happened than for how they were seen. Painting slows down these fleeting moments and treats them as historical images, suggesting that today public perception, rather than importance, determines what endures.

¿A quién no le va gustar?

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Betty’s birthday

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Cecilia Giménez y Ecce Homo

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Gatito aiuda

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Greta detained, again

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Japan-Public display of Affection

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Karl Lagerfeld in Rosenthaler Platz

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Mujer Calculando

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Mujer Mapuche

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Paris 2024 – Gunshot Japan

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Raffaella

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Rex

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

See what that taste like

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Shrek

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas

Sick sad world

10 x 10 cm
oil on canvas